The Great 'shrinking food and other items' Hunt

aris

The flavoured ones (my wife likes the smoked salmon and dill flavour) used to be 200g, but now I see they are 170g - same price! The packaging is the same size, but now in an orange tub instead of white.

The cheek!

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aris wrote: »

The flavoured ones (my wife likes the smoked salmon and dill flavour) used to be 200g, but now I see they are 170g - same price! The packaging is the same size, but now in an orange tub instead of white.

The cheek!

Not really its just marketing and a way of increasing their profits.The flavored ones are nice but if you see the plain ones on offer I buy and add my own flavourings :):) companies are in business to make money they are not subsidised. Its the same with most food stuff .Rather than put the price up they just make the product smaller in size.

aris

JackieO wrote: »

Not really its just marketing and a way of increasing their profits.The flavored ones are nice but if you see the plain ones on offer I buy and add my own flavourings :):) companies are in business to make money they are not subsidised. Its the same with most food stuff .Rather than put the price up they just make the product smaller in size.

By charging the same for less they are, in effect, putting the price up It is subterfuge.

Ryuu

As a person living outside of UK, why not trying to ask your gov (or pressure the markets) to do the same (similar) as it happened here.

Today, almost all prices (not sure if by law or by customer pressure) contain standard unit price recalculation. (1 kg, 1liter, 100g for ham..., 1pc for eggs...)

This is how an actual promo looks like: (taken from this weeks Lidl promo) // while it's small, it is still easily readable in Real Life :-)

lidl.cz/catalogmedia/cz/article/54685/54685_99_teaserthemeworld2x1.jpg

antrobus

Ryuu wrote: »

As a person living outside of UK, why not trying to ask your gov (or pressure the markets) to do the same (similar) as it happened here.

Today, almost all prices (not sure if by law or by customer pressure) contain standard unit price recalculation. (1 kg, 1liter, 100g for ham..., 1pc for eggs...)

This is how an actual promo looks like: (taken from this weeks Lidl promo) // while it's small, it is still easily readable in Real Life :-)

lidl.cz/catalogmedia/cz/article/54685/54685_99_teaserthemeworld2x1.jpg

It's the same in the UK. The shelf edge labels all show the price per kg, 100g, 100ml whatever.

One suspects however, that most people don't take any notice.

ampersand

antrobus wrote: »

It's the same in the UK. The shelf edge labels all show the price per kg, 100g, 100ml whatever.

One suspects however, that most people don't take any notice.

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How many adults understand catchweight? Most children are not taught to relish mental arithmetic, acquiring speed.

I LOATHE seeing adults using zappers, encouraging brain torpor in their children to mirror their own. It is unimaginitive, slack, anti-mse to use these devices.

Nada666

Ryuu wrote: »

As a person living outside of UK, why not trying to ask your gov (or pressure the markets) to do the same (similar) as it happened here.

Today, almost all prices (not sure if by law or by customer pressure) contain standard unit price recalculation. (1 kg, 1liter, 100g for ham..., 1pc for eggs...)

This is how an actual promo looks like: (taken from this weeks Lidl promo) // while it's small, it is still easily readable in Real Life :-)

lidl.cz/catalogmedia/cz/article/54685/54685_99_teaserthemeworld2x1.jpg

The requirements are here in Britain, too. But they are useless as multi-buys are endemic and cross differently priced items in the same confusion marketing 'offer' so a great number of prices per 100g or ml are not of any use.

(And as to this thread, the shrinking sizes, the value of the price per unit is not the issue - it is the removal of our memory and knowledge of the price per standard pack.)

dlusman

Part of the problem is that too many people ( including some politicians ) appear to think that it is a badge of honour/nothing to worry about to claim they are "not good at arithmetic". Cannot imagine anyone thinking the same of inability to read/write.

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aris wrote: »

By charging the same for less they are, in effect, putting the price up It is subterfuge.

I can't see why as you know if you look at the product, and common sense tells you if you are getting less for your money then of course its a price rise.Prices are rising all the time as business costs and raw material costs rise its a fact of life and the mainstay of economic growth

Scritti

JackieO wrote: »

I can't see why as you know if you look at the product, and common sense tells you if you are getting less for your money then of course its a price rise.Prices are rising all the time as business costs and raw material costs rise its a fact of life and the mainstay of economic growth

It's not that simple. It's not always easy to see when the product is 10 or 15% smaller as these things will often be shrinking in stages, the manufacturers hoping that most people won't notice.

And it's the principle behind it that's wrong. Historically, prices have risen as time has passed and inflation has come into play. Prices SHOULD rise over time. But this new product shrinking phenomenon seems to be a new thing to con people into believing prices have not gone up. It's a massive con and so typical of today's cynical, dishonest world. I hate it with a passion.

I can remember Cadbury's Flakes being absolutely gigantic when I was young. If they shrink any further, they'll be the size of the ones you stick in a 99 ice cream. Absolutely shameful.